![]() ![]() ![]() With the ball spotted inside the 25 yard line, Dolphins kicker Pete Stoyanovich trotted out on the field. Unfortunately, the Miami Dolphins had the football, and they were in position to attempt a game winning field goal with just a few seconds remaining. None the less, with time winding down in the fourth quarter, the home team found themselves clinging to a 14-13 lead. As bad as the Miami Dolphins played under those impossible conditions, the Dallas Cowboys managed to play even worse. It is a day I remember well, it was MISERABLE! Growing up in Mesquite, just east of Dallas, that day was perhaps the worst day of winter weather I have ever seen it was so bad that the Macelli family had put the Thanksgiving feast on hold - but at least there would be Cowboys football that day.Īs you would expect, the game was certainly not a thing of beauty. Jeff Sullivan, Dallas Cowboys Star Magazine And two hours before kickoff, there was a tarp covering the aforementioned that was trapped beneath more ice and snow than just about anyone born and raised in Texas had ever seen. There was a slab of cement covered by a green carpet disguised as artificial turf. And, oh yeah, there was the field itself. There was freezing rain, snow, sleet, ice pellets, little hail here and there. However, the lack of Fahrenheit was the least of anyone’s worries. local time kickoff, 24 degrees and dropping by the second half. The Frigid Bowl on Turkey Day at Texas Stadium: 32 degrees for the 3 p.m. And that, in and of itself, would have made for a heck of a story. We’re talking the coldest Thanksgiving on record, before or since, and likely forever and ever, in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. It was going to be cold, this much everyone knew going in. At least the Lombardi Trophy was firmly in the Cowboys grasp when his famous fumble occurred, Lett's Turkey Day miscue would not turn out so well. In the Thanksgiving Day game on November 25th, 1993, Lett somehow managed to top his fumble out of the back of the endzone during the Super Bowl the previous season. Poor Leon: it wasn't that he made more blunders than any other player in the game, in fact he made less of them than most, it was just that Leon Lett had a strange sense of timing that conspired to ensure that when he did suffer a faux pas, it came at the worst possible time and in front of the biggest possible audience. Thanksgiving Treat: Entire 1993 Snow Game story by now online. ![]()
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